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CHE 101 Molecular Frontiers in Chemical Engineering |
CHE 201 Material and Energy Balances |
CHE 210 Modeling and Analysis of Transport Phenomena |
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CHE 301 Chemical Engineering as a Profession |
CHE 311 Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer |
CHE 312 Mass Transfer and Separations |
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CHE 316 Unit Operations Laboratory |
CHE 321 Thermodynamics for Chemical Engineers |
CHE 422 Transport Phenomena |
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CHE 431 Chemical Reaction Engineering |
CHE 432 Process Analysis and Control |
CHE 433 Process Design and Optimization I |
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CHE 434 Process Design and Optimization II |
CHE 472 Composite Materials Processing |
CHE 473 Chemical Engineering Principles in Polymers and Materials Systems |
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CHE 481 Biochemical Engineering |
CHE 490 Independent Study |
CHE 491 Selected Topics in Chemical Engineering |
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CHE 801 Advanced Chemical Engineering Calculations |
CHE 802 Research Methods |
CHE 804 Foundations of Chemical Engineering I |
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CHE 805 Foundations of Chemical Engineering II |
CHE 821 Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics |
CHE 822 Advanced Transport Phenomena |
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CHE 831 Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering |
CHE 871 Material Surfaces and Interfaces |
CHE 872 Polymers and Composites: Manufacturing, Structure, and Performance |
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CHE 882 Advanced Biochemical Engineering |
CHE 883 Multidisciplinary Bioprocessing Laboratory |
CHE 890 Independent Study |
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CHE 891 Selected Topics |
CHE 892 Seminar |
CHE 899 Master's Thesis Research |
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CHE 972 Viscoelasticity and Flow of Polymeric Materials |
CHE 999 Doctoral Dissertation Research |
MSE 101 Materials and Society |
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MSE 250 Materials Science and Engineering |
MSE 310 Energy and Bonding within Solids |
MSE 320 Mechanical Properties of Materials |
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MSE 331 Materials Characterization Methods I |
MSE 350 Electronic Structure and Properties of Materials |
MSE 360 Fundamentals of Microstructural Design |
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MSE 370 Physical Processing of Materials |
MSE 381 Materials Characterization Methods II |
MSE 401 Quantitative Human Biology |
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MSE 425 Biomaterials and Biocompatibility |
MSE 426 Introduction to Composite Materials |
MSE 451 Microscopic and Diffraction Analysis of Materials |
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MSE 454 Ceramic and Refractory Materials |
MSE 465 Design and Application of Engineering Materials |
MSE 466 Design and Failure Analysis |
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MSE 476 Physical Metallurgy of Ferrous and Aluminum Alloys |
MSE 477 Manufacturing Processes |
MSE 490 Independent Study |
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MSE 491 Selected Topics |
MSE 499 Senior Research and Design Project |
MSE 802 Research Methods |
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MSE 851 Thermodynamics of Solids |
MSE 855 Advanced Rate Theory and Diffusion |
MSE 862 Dislocation Theory |
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MSE 865 Advanced Theory of Solids |
MSE 870 Electron Microscopy in Materials Science |
MSE 871 Material Surfaces and Interfaces |
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MSE 875 Engineering Ceramics |
MSE 876 Advanced Polymeric Materials |
MSE 890 Independent Study |
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MSE 891 Selected Topics in Materials Science |
MSE 892 Seminar |
MSE 899 Master's Thesis Research |
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MSE 964 Advanced Physical and Mechanical Properties of Materials I |
MSE 964A Ansiotropic Crystalline Properties |
MSE 964B Displacive Phase Transformations |
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MSE 965 Advanced Analytical Techniques |
MSE 965A Environmental Effects on Materials |
MSE 965B Advanced Techniques in Electron Microscopy |
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MSE 974 Advanced Physical and Mechanical Properties of Materials II |
MSE 974A Microcracking in Brittle Materials |
MSE 974B High Temperature Deformation and Processing |
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MSE 975 Advanced Processing Techniques |
MSE 975A Laser and Plasma Processing |
MSE 975B Ceramic Processing |
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MSE 990 Independent Study |
MSE 991 Selected Topics |
MSE 999 Doctoral Dissertation Research |
Influence of chemical engineering on society. History of the profession and future directions. Career opportunities in chemical engineering. Hands-on illustrations of chemical engineering principles. Problem solving skills and development of creativity. Computers and computations in chemical engineering. Development of written and oral communication skills.
Restrictions and comments: Recommended Background: High school chemistry, biology, algebra, physics.
Credit Hours: 1 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 2 )
Semesters offered: Fall
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Chemical engineering calculations. Synthesis of chemical process systems. Analysis of chemical processes using material and energy balances. Enthalpy calculations for changes in temperature, phase transitions, and chemical reactions.
Prerequisites: (MTH 133) and (CEM 142 or CEM 143 or CEM 152) and (CSE 101 or concurrently or CSE 131 or concurrentl
Credit Hours: 3 ( Lab hours: 1 )
Semesters offered: Fall, Spring
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Steady and unsteady state material and energy balances. Fluxes and rate processes. Shell balances. Balance equations for mass, heat, and momentum transport. Analogies among mass, heat, and momentum transport. Analytical and numerical solutions. Application of computational methods to problem solutions.
Prerequisites: (MTH 235 or concurrently) and (CSE 131 or concurrently)
Restrictions and comments: Recommended Background: (CHE 201 or concurrently)
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall and Spring
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Professional aspects of chemical engineering. Communication skills, professionalism and ethics, teamwork skills, contemporary engineering issues, career planning, project management, industrial processes.
Prerequisites: CHE 201 or concurrently
Restrictions and comments: Open only to students in Chemical Engineering major. Recommended junior standing in Chemical Engineering program.
Credit Hours: 1 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 2 )
Semesters offered: Fall
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Thermodynamics of fluid flow. Laminar and turbulent flow. Design of flow systems. Heat transfer in solids and flowing fluids. Interphase heat transfer. Radiant heat transfer. Multiple effect evaporation. Design of heat exchange equipment.
Prerequisites: (CHE 201 or concurrently) and (CHE 210 or concurrently)
Restrictions and comments: Open only to juniors or seniors in the College of Engineering.
Credit Hours: 3 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 4 )
Semesters offered: Fall
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Diffusion. Mass transfer coefficients. Design of countercurrent separations systems, both stagewise and continuous. Distillation, absorption, extraction. Multicomponent separations. Batch processes. Computer-aided design methods.
Prerequisites: (CHE 201 or concurrently) and (MTH 235 or concurrently)
Restrictions and comments: Open only to students in the College of Engineering.
Credit Hours: 4 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 3 )
Semesters offered: Spring
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Practical experience with unit operations equipment, including separations processes, reactor systems, and chemical processes requiring analysis of heat, mass and momentum transport. Laboratory assignments requiring teamwork. Engineering statistics with focus on model building, experimental design, and statistical quality control.
Prerequisites: (CHE 311 and (CHE 312 or concurrently) and (CHE 321 or concurrently) and (CHE 431 or concurrently)) and completion of Tier I writing requirement.
Restrictions and comments: Open only to students in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.
Credit Hours: 4 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 2 ) ( Lab hours: 6 )
Semesters offered: Spring, Summer
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First and second laws. Thermodynamics of flow and energy conversion processes. Properties of single and multi-component systems. Phase equilibria. Chemical equilibria in reacting systems.
Prerequisites: CHE 201
Credit Hours: 4 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 5 )
Semesters offered: Spring
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Mathematical and physical analogies among mass, energy and momentum transfer processes. Dimensional analysis and solutions to mutlivariable boundary value problems. Numerical solutions to nonlinear problems.
Prerequisites: CHE 311 and CHE 312
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring
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Design and analysis of homogeneous flow and batch reactors. Chemical kinetics and equilibria. Reaction rate expressions from mechanisms and experimental data. Mass and heat transfer in heterogeneous reactors. Heterogeneous reactor design. Catalysis.
Prerequisites: (CHE 210 or concurrently) and CHE 201
Restrictions and comments: Open only to juniors or seniors in the Chemical Engineering major.
Credit Hours: 4 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 5 )
Semesters offered: Spring
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Modeling of process dynamics. Basics of control theory. Design of control systems and specification of control strategies. Integration of control theory with modern practice.
Prerequisites: CHE 431
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall
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Applications of chemical engineering principles in design calculations. Selection of optimum design. Influence of design on capital investment, operating cost, product loss and quality. Mathematical programming methods for optimization.
Prerequisites: CHE 432 (or concurrently) & Completion of Tier I writing requirement. Open only to students in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials S
Restrictions and comments: Open only to students in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.
Credit Hours: 4 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 5 )
Semesters offered: Fall
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Design project requiring an integrated design of chemical engineering processes. Process and project engineering. Instrumentation and control systems. Flowsheet layout and optimization. Process simulation.
Prerequisites: CHE 433
Credit Hours: 2 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 4 )
Semesters offered: Spring
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Manufacturing processes for thermoset and thermoplastic matrix composites. Mechanical and thermal evaluation of composites. Rheology and molding of fiber-filled materials.
Prerequisites: CHE 311 or ME 332 or CE 321
Credit Hours: 3 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 2 ) ( Lab hours: 3 )
Semesters offered: Fall
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Application of chemical engineering principles to polymer and materials systems. Structures and properties of metals, ceramics and polymers. Thermodynamics,synthesis, rubber elasticity, viscoelasticity, kinetics, rheology, and processing of polymers systems. Applications of statistics and problem-solving skills to materials systems.
Prerequisites: CHE 311 and CHE 321 and CHE 431 and CEM 352
Restrictions and comments: Alias: CHE 371
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring
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Applications of microbiology and biochemistry to biochemical engineering. Kinetics and thermodynamics of biochemical reactors. Transport phenomena in biological systems. Bioreactor design and scale-up.
Prerequisites: CHE 431
Credit Hours: 3 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 2 ) ( Lab hours: 3 )
Semesters offered: Fall
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Theoretical or experimental studies of current research topics in chemical engineering. Individual interaction with faculty adviser.
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course. Open only to juniors or seniors or graduate students in Chemical Engineering. Approval of department.
Credit Hours: Variable, from 1 to 3
Semesters offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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Study of newly developing or non-traditional chemical engineering topics in a classroom environment
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course. Open only to juniors or seniors or graduate students in Chemical Engineering.
Credit Hours: Variable, from 1 to 3
Semesters offered: Fall, Spring
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Formulation of differential equations modeling physical phenomena in chemical engineering. Application of analytical and numerical solution methods. Interpretation of solutions.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall
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Skills required for graduate research. Critically reviewing the literature, defining a fundamental research problem, effective oral and written technical presentations, ethics, and statistics.
Restrictions and comments: Interdepartmental With: Materials Science and Engineering
Credit Hours: 3
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Mass and energy balances in batch, continuous and open systems. Process thermodynamics. Properties of substances and mixtures. Phase equilibria. Chemical reaction equilibria. Chemical reactor kinetics and design.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring
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Macroscopic and microscopic balances involving momentum, energy, and mass transfer, Compressible and incompressible fluid flow. Flow systems. Heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation. Heat exchangers. Mass transfer by diffusion and convection. Gas absorption and stripping. Extraction. Distillation. Dimensional analysis.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Summer
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Laws of thermodynamics, unsteady state processes. Prediction and correlation of phase equilibria for nonelectrolytes. Relation of quantum theory and statistical mechanics to thermodynamic properties.
Prerequisites: Open only to Chemical Engineering majors.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall
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Derivation of balance equations for mass, energy and momentum. Constitutive equations for multicomponent fluids. Estimates of transport properties. Approximate models for turbulent and boundary layer flows. Boundary value problems.
Restrictions and comments: Recommended background, CHE 801
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring of every year
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Characterization of solid catalysts. Heterogeneous reaction rate expressions. Simultaneous mass and heat transport and chemical reaction in porous catalysts. Design of fixed-bed and fluidized-bed reactors. Industrial catalytic reactions.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring
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Physical and chemical nature of solid surfaces and their interaction with gases, liquids and other solids. Characterization of surfaces and solid-solid interfaces. Relation of surface and interfacial structure to engineering prhenomena.
Restrictions and comments: Recommended background, CEM 392 or CEM 434 or MSE 351. Open only to students in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science or Department of Chemistry or School of Packaging. Alias: MSE 871
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall of odd-numbered years.
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Structure-Property Relations of Polymers, Fibers, Fabrics and Composites, Material Selection, Manufacturing Processes, Process Induced Microstructure, Prediction of Composite Mechanical Properties, Dimensional Stability, Design of Cure Cycles, Mold Design.
Restrictions and comments: Open only to students in the College of Engineering or the Department of Chemistry.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring of even-numbered years
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Microbial strain improvement. Metabolic engineering. Structured growth models. Non-ideal bioreactor performance. Biosensors and process control of bioreactors. Separation processes for biochemicals.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring of even years.
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Mentored research project conducted in multidisciplinary team. Bioprocessing research methods. Teamwork skills.
Restrictions and comments: Recommended Background: (CHE 481) or graduate work in engineering, biosciences or related disciplines.
Credit Hours: 3 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 1 ) ( Lab hours: 4 )
Semesters offered: Spring of every year.
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Supervised individual investigation of a problem in chemical engineering.
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course. Open only to students in Chemical Engineering major. Approval of department.
Credit Hours: Variable, from 1 to 3
Semesters offered: Fall, Spring and Summer.
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Physical and mathematical analysis of phenomena such as swirling flows or stability of reactions and transport processes.
Prerequisites: A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course. Open only to students
Credit Hours: Variable, from 1 to 3
Semesters offered: Fall, Spring and Summer.
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Presentations of detailed studies on one more specialized aspects of chemical engineering and materials science.
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 4 credits in all enrollments for this course. Open only to students in Chemical Engineering major.
Credit Hours: 1 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 0 ) ( Lab hours: 2 )
Semesters offered: Fall and Spring.
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Master's Thesis Research
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 24 credits in all enrollments for this course. Open only to students in Chemical Engineering major.
Credit Hours: Variable, from 1 to 8
Semesters offered: Fall, Spring and Summer.
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Time dependent and steady flow properties of polymeric materials related to molecular and structural parameters. Examples of polymeric blends and composites with thermoplastic and thermoset components
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring of odd-numbered years
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Doctoral Dissertation Research.
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 72 credits in all enrollments for this course. Open only to Chemical Engineering majors.
Credit Hours: Variable, from 1-12
Semesters offered: Fall, Spring and Summer
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Material capabilities, limitations, and their utilization in the service and advancement of society.
Restrictions and comments: High school physics, chemistry, mathematics
Credit Hours: 2
Semesters offered: Fall of every year
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Structure of metals, ceramics and polymers. Phase diagrams, thermomechanical treatments, physical and mechanical properties, diffusion, microstructure studies, environmental effects.
Prerequisites: CEM 141 or CEM 151 or LBS 171
Restrictions and comments: Alias: MSM 250
Credit Hours: 3 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 2 ) ( Lab hours: 2 )
Semesters offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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Enthalpy, entropy, free energy, phase changes in metal, ceramic and polymer materials systems. Application to alloying, phase diagram determination, electrochemistry.
Prerequisites: (MSE 250 or concurrently) and (MTH 234 or MTH 254H or LBS 220)
Restrictions and comments: Open only to juniors or seniors in the College of Engineering.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall of every year
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Mechanical behavior of metals, ceramics and polymers. Three-dimensional stress-states. Stress, strain and compliance tensors. Test methods. Elastic, viscoelastic, and plastic deformation. Fracture, fatigue and creep.
Prerequisites: (ME 222 or concurrently) and (MSE 250)
Restrictions and comments: Open only to juniors or seniors in the Materials Science and Engineering major.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall of every year
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Thermal analysis. Optical and Scanning Electron Microscopy Laboratory for characterizing microstructure-property relationships. Effects of processing on microstructures, properties, and fracture surfaces in metal, ceramic and polymer systems.
Prerequisites: (MSE 310 or concurrently and MSE 320 or concurrently)
Restrictions and comments: Open only to juniors or seniors in the Materials Science and Engineering major. Not open to students with credit in MSE 375.
Credit Hours: 1 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 0 ) ( Lab hours: 3 )
Semesters offered: Fall of every year
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Fundamentals of electrical, thermal, magnetic and optical properties of metals, dielectrics, semiconductors and polymers. Crystal structure, reciprocal space, quantum mechanics, electron band structure, and phonons. Materials applications in electronics and optoelectronics.
Prerequisites: (PHY 184 or concurrently) and (CEM 141 or CEM 151 or LBS 171)
Restrictions and comments: Not open to students with credit in MSE 455.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring of every year.
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Fick’s laws of diffusion. Models of solid state diffusion. Arrhenius plots. Use of non-equilibrium energy storage from solidification, phase changes, and deformation to predict and control microstructural changes and stability during processing in metal, ceramic and polymer systems.
Prerequisites: (MSE 310 and MSE 350 or concurrently)
Restrictions and comments: Open only to juniors or seniors in the College of Engineering.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring of every year.
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Physical processing of powders. Mixing; casting. Surface modification of ceramic, polymeric and metallic materials in order to engineer the microstructure, properties and form of components.
Prerequisites: (MSE 310) or (CHE 321)
Restrictions and comments: Restrictions: Open to students in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Recommended Background: MSE 250 and (MSE 350 or concurrently)
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring of every year
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X-ray and infrared spectroscopic analysis laboratory for characterizing microstructure-property relationships. Effects of processing on microstructures, properties, and fracture surfaces in metal, ceramic and polymer systems.
Prerequisites: (MSE 360 or concurrently) and (MSE 370 or concurrently)
Restrictions and comments: Open only to juniors or seniors in the Materials Science and Engineering major.
Credit Hours: 2 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 1 ) ( Lab hours: 3 )
Semesters offered: Spring of every year.
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Qualitative description and quantitative engineering analysis of selected, tractable human-biological systems. Multi-disciplinary problem-solving among medical and engineering professionals.
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: (MTH 235 and PHY 184) and ((PSL 250 or concurrently) or (PSL 431 or concurrently) or (ANTR 350 or concurrently)) and (CEM 141 or CEM 151
Restrictions and comments: Recommended Background: (CSE 131 or concurrently) or (CSE 231 or concurrently) or PSL 410. Interdepartmental With: Biomedical Engineering, Human Anatomy, Radiology. Administered By: Biomedical Engineering.
Credit Hours: 3 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 4 )
Semesters offered: Spring of every year
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Materials science of human implants. Design requirements imposed by the human body, and need for bodily protection.
Prerequisites: PSL 250 or concurrently and MSE 250
Restrictions and comments: Interdepartmental with Biomedical Engineering. Administered by Materials Science and Engineering.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring
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Constituents and interfacial bonding. Manufacturing techniques. Microstructure and micromechanics. Theory of anisotropy. Classical laminate theory. Material characterization. Failure and damage. Composite structure design.
Prerequisites: ME 222
Restrictions and comments: Interdepartmental with Mechanical Engineering. Administered by Materials Science and Engineering. Open only to juniors and seniors in the College of Engineering.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring of every year.
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General properties, generation and detection of x-rays. Interaction with solids. Crystallography, reciprocal lattice, diffraction analysis and techniques. Single crystal methods, stereographic projection. X-ray microanalysis.
Prerequisites: PHY 184 or PHY 184B or PHY 234B
Restrictions and comments: Recommended Background: (MSE 350 and MSE 381). Open only to seniors or graduate students in the Colleges of Engineering or Natural Science.
Credit Hours: 3 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 2 ) ( Lab hours: 3 )
Semesters offered: Fall of every year.
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Ceramic and glassy materials. High temperature processes. Mechanical and physical properties of technical ceramics.
Prerequisites: PHY 184
Restrictions and comments: Recommended Background: (MSE 350 and MSE 381). Open only to seniors in the College of Engineering.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall of every year.
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Fundamental principles of strengthening; toughening, specific strength and stiffness. Material development based on environmental, temperature, wear, damping, fatigue and economic considerations.
Prerequisites: (MSE 331 and MSE 381) and completion of Tier I writing requirement.
Restrictions and comments: Open to students in the Materials Science and Engineering major.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring of every year.
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Modes and causes of failure in mechanical components. Non-destructive evaluation. Legal and economic aspects of materials failure. Student projects.
Prerequisites: (MSE 250) and completion of Tier I writing requirement.
Restrictions and comments: Recommended Background: MSE 320 and MSE 331. Open only to juniors or seniors College of Engineering.
Credit Hours: 3 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 2 ) ( Lab hours: 3 )
Semesters offered: Spring of every year.
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Heat treatment and properties of ferrous and aluminum alloys. Casting and solidification. Effects of alloying elements, high strength low alloy steels, hardenability, case hardening. Joining of materials, such as welding.
Prerequisites: (MSE 250)
Restrictions and comments: Recommended Background: MSE 310. Open only to seniors in the College of Engineering.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall
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Fundamentals of manufacturing processes such as casting, heat treating, particulate processing, forming, machining, joining and surface processing. Selection of manufacturing processes based on design and materials.
Prerequisites: (ME 222 and MSE 250) and completion of Tier I writing requirement.
Restrictions and comments: Interdepartmental with Mechanical Engineering. Administered by Mechanical Engnineering. Open only to students in the Applied Engineering Sciences, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical engineering majors.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall of every year. Spring of every year
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Individualized reading and research. Open only to juniors or seniors in the College of Engineering. A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course. Open only to juniors or seniors in the College of Engineering.
Credit Hours: Variable, from 1 to 3
Semesters offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
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Topics of current interest in materials science or engineering.
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course. Open only to students in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.
Credit Hours: Variable, from 1-3
Semesters offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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Design and analysis to solve materials and/or mechanics related problem. Preparation of written report, oral presentation, and defense of the project.
Prerequisites: Completion of Tier I writing requirement.
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course. Open only to seniors in the Materials Science. Approval of department.
Credit Hours: Variable, from 2 to 4
Semesters offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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Skills required for graduate research. Critically reviewing the literature, defining a fundamental research problem, effective oral and written technical presentations, ethics, and statistics.
Restrictions and comments: Interdepartmental With: Chemical Engineering. Administered By: Chemical Engineering
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall of every year.
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Use of Jacobians. Thermodynamic functions. Thermodynamics of solid-solid phase transformation. Thermoelastic solids, rubber elasticity, and stressed solids. Surfaces and interfaces, point defects in solids. Thermodynamics of solids under high pressure.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall
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Review of Fick's Laws. Atomistic aspects of diffusion. Defects in solids. Probabilistic basis of random walk. Green's function solutions.
Restrictions and comments: Recommended background, MSE 851.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring
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Advanced theory of dislocations and other crystal defects in metals, ceramics, aggregates and ordered compounds. Elasticity theory of straight dislocations, dislocation strain energy, mobility, obstacle interactions, reactions, and core effects.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall
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Quantum mechanics. Free electron theory. Energy bands, semiconductors. Dielectrics and ferroelectrics. Dia-, para-, ferro-, and antiferro-magnetism. Superconductivity. Thermal properties.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring
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Theory of electron diffraction. Electromagnetic lenses. Image formation in transmission electron microscopy. Defect analysis and diffraction contrast.
Restrictions and comments: Open only to graduate students in the Materials Science and Engineering major or approval of department.
Credit Hours: 3 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 2 ) ( Lab hours: 3 )
Semesters offered: Spring
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Physical and chemical nature of solid surfaces and their interaction with gases, liquids, and other solids. Characterization of surfaces and solid-solid interfaces. Relation of surface and interfacial structure to engineering phenomena.
Restrictions and comments: Recommended background, CEM 392 or CEM 434 or MSE 351. Open only to graduate students in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science or Department of Chemistry or School of Packaging. Interdepartmental With: Chemical Engineering. Administered By: Materials Science and Engineering.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall of odd years
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Physical properties of engineering ceramics. Transport properties of ceramics, especially in ferrites and garnets. Optical ceramic materials.
Restrictions and comments: Recommended background: MSE 851.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall of odd years
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Advanced topics in polymer structure and properties. Thermoplastics, thermosets, polyblends and elastomers. Processing techniques. Deformation and mechanical properties. Thermal, optical and chemical properties. Composites.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall of even years
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Individualized reading and research of student's interest.
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course. Approval of department.
Credit Hours: Variable, from 1 to 3
Semesters offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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Special topics of current importance in materials science or engineering.
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course. Approval of department.
Credit Hours: Variable, from 1 to 3
Semesters offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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Presentations of detailed studies of one or more specialized aspects of chemical engineering and materials science.
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 4 credits in all enrollments for this course. Interdepartmental With: Chemical Engineering. Administered By: Chemical Engineering. Open only to Materials Science and Engineering Majors.
Credit Hours: 1 ( Lecture/Recitation/Discussion hours: 2 )
Semesters offered: Fall of every year. Spring of every year
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Master's Thesis Research
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 24 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Credit Hours: Variable, from 1 to 8
Semesters offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer
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Topics vary each semester. Topics such as anisotropic crystalline properties and displacive phase transformations.
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 9 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall of even years
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Crystallography. Tensor representation. Magnetic susceptibility. Electric polarization. Stress and strain. Thermal expansion. Piezoelectricity. Elasticity. Transport properties.
Restrictions and comments: Recommended Background, MSE 851.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall of even years
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Crystallography and thermodynamics of displacive phase transformations. Twinning. Thermoelastic and non-thermoelastic martensites. WLR theory. Multiple-well potentials. Self-accommodation and interface mobility. Shape memory, superelasticity, transformation toughening and transformation-induced plasticity.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall of even years
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Topics vary each semester. Topics such as environmental effects on materials and advanced techniques in electron microscopy.
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 9 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall of odd years
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Influence of external and internal environments on degradation and fracture of metallic/nonmetallic materials. Environment-induced transport phenomena due to benign and aggressive environmental conditions and related fracture behavior of materials.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall of odd years
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Experimental methods in transmission electron microscopy. Microanalytical, chemical, microbeam, diffraction and lattice imaging techniques.
Restrictions and comments: Recommended Background, MSE 870.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Fall of odd years
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Topics vary each semester. Topics such as microcracking in brittle materials, or high temperature deformation and processing.
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 9 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring of even years
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Microcracking mechanisms and the effect of microcracks on mechanical, thermal and electrical properties. Microcracking theories. Experimental investigations of microcracks.
Restrictions and comments: Recommended Background, MSE 875.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring of even years
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Theoretical and design principles applied to the control of creep, superplasticity, cavitation, recrystallization, and texture changes. Metallic, alloy, intermetallic, ceramic, and composite systems.
Restrictions and comments: Recommended Background, MSE 851 and MSE 862.
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring of even years
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Topics vary each semester. Topics such as laser and plasma processing and ceramic processing.
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 9 credits in all enrollments for this course. Alias: MSM 980, MSM 975
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring of odd years
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Application of laser and plasma technology in materials processing. Optical and surface properties. Thin films. Heat and mass flow. Heat-treating. Cutting, drilling, and joining.
Restrictions and comments: Recommended Background, MSE 851. Alias: MSM 980C, MSM 975
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring of odd years
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Fundamental aspects of and recent developments in ceramic powder processing. The processing stream from making the powder to consolidation.
Restrictions and comments: Recommended Background, MSE 851 and MSE 875. Alias: MSM 980A, MSM 975B
Credit Hours: 3
Semesters offered: Spring of odd years
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Individualized reading and research.
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course. Alias: MSM 990
Credit Hours: Variable, from 1 to 3
Semesters offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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Special advanced topics in materials science and engineering, and mechanics.
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course. Approval of department.
Credit Hours: Variable, from 1 to 3
Semesters offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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Doctoral dissertation research.
Restrictions and comments: A student may earn a maximum of 72 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Credit Hours: Variable, from 1 to 24
Semesters offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer
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